"For those who grew up in that cruel, hostile anti-gay world like me will always be thankful to Madonna for her brave stance, which helped me and a maligned LGBT generation to express itself when the rest of the world tried to shut it down."

With that one sentence buried in all his hollow talk about justice for all, Donohoe revealed that he is more interested in his own rights than gay rights, in making his life better, not improving things for anyone else.

"We're in a time that's all about trying to silence people and make them conform to this very nasty idea of what is right, what is American, what is Christian," Fenton Bailey tells Queerty about the Trump era in America.